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 99 STAT. 774

42 USC 2121.

Contract.

PUBLIC LAW 99-145—NOV. 8, 1985 year 1986 not more than $41,133,000 from funds available to the Department of Energy for the purpose of carrying out a contract with Anderson County and Roane County, Tennessee, and the City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that would provide a final financial settlement with those entities and terminate all annual assistance payments made to those entities pursuant to section 91 of the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955 (42 U.S.C. 2391), and for advance payment of payments in lieu of property taxes for the fiscal years 1986 through 1996 authorized by section 168 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2208). (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than February 1, 1986, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report and the Secretary's recommendations concerning any need for any further financial assistance payments to local governmental entities pursuant to the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955. In making such recommendations, the Secretary shall consider— (1) the criteria established by section 91 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; (2) changes in the financial circumstances of State and local governmental entities since 1955; (3) other forms of Federal assistance to State and local governmental entities provided since 1955; and (4) the deficit of the Federal budget. (c) LIMITATION.—No funds may be obligated for the purposes set forth in subsection (a) until— (1) the Secretary has submitted to the appropriate committees of Congress a copy of an executed contract that complies with the requirements of that subsection; and (2) a period of 30 calendar days (not including any day on which either House of Congress is not in session because of adjournment of more than three calendar days to a day certain) has passed after receipt of such contract. SEC. 1533. IMPROVEMENTS TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUILDING AT OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE

Research and development.

Subject to the provisions of appropriations Acts, the Secretary of Energy is authorized to obligate not more than $5,000,000 during fiscal year 1986 from funds available to the Department of Energy to renovate a building owned by the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, if the Secretary determines that the Department's research and development requirements of the Strategic Defense Initiatives program require such renovations.

42 USC 7256a.

SEC. 1534. COSTS NOT ALLOWED UNDER COVERED CONTRACTS

(a) IN GENERAL.—The following costs are not allowable under a covered contract: (1) Costs of entertainment, including amusement, diversion, and social activities and any costs directly associated with such costs (such as tickets to shows or sports events, meals, lodging, rentals, transportation, and gratuities). (2) Costs incurred to influence (directly or indirectly) legislative action on any matter pending before Congress or a State legislature. (3) Costs incurred in defense of any civil or criminal fraud proceeding or similar proceeding (including filing of any false certification) brought by the United States where the contractor

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